Sharon Y Nickol
Biographic Data
| ID | 334094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Y Nickol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Nickol |
| SIGNATURE | NICKOL S Y |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Perceived Adequacy of Resources: Reprise on a Useful Research Tool
Researchers, educators, counselors, and policy‐makers use information gathered from specific populations and the public at large to identify and understand their perceptions of well‐being. Perceived Adequacy of Resources (PAR), a comprehensive exploration of individual’s assessment of their resources in seven domains of living, was developed in the 1980s and has been validated as a reliable measure. In response to requests for the inventory, a su…
Home Management Houses: Part I History and a Case Study of Kansas State University
For much of the 20th century, living in a home management house for the purpose of applying principles and practices of household resource management was a core feature of the home economics curriculum. Home management houses were an integral part of the infrastructure on campuses of colleges and universities offering home economics majors. The purpose of this study was to explore the history of the home management house as an educational method …
Exploring Home Management Houses: Part II Two Case Studies: The University of Georgia and Texas Tech University
Home management courses, and the houses where those course principles and practices were applied, played an historical role in the home economics curriculum in the United States from the 1920s to the 1980s. The residence course was taught in a variety of settings. However, the course was taught most often in houses located on campus. Using multiple research methods, this study explored home management courses and residences at the University of G…
The Opening Wedge: Mary E. Creswell, Home Economics, and the University of Georgia
A protracted struggle for women to gain admission to the University of Georgia took place in the context of major shifts in social, economic, and political conditions within the state from the 1890s to the early 1900s. This article reports the early development of home economics in Georgia and Mary E. Creswell's pivotal role. As a beneficiary of change as well as an agent of change, Creswell provided leadership for programs aimed at increasing wo…
Helen Woodard Atwater: A Leader of Leaders
This article chronicles the life of Helen W. Atwater, a leader of leaders, and emissary for journalistic expertise, home economics, and women's role in civil society. Atwater's career as a writer and editor encompassed three decades in the early twentieth century during which she prepared reports for the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Home Economics, served as the first full‐time editor of the Journal of Home Economics…
Seeking Food Security: Environmental Factors Influencing Home Food Preservation and Wellness, Part II: 1960-2010
Important events in the natural environment and society along with dramatic changes in family structures and available resources have occurred from 1910 to 2010, impacting household food security and wellness. This article, Seeking Food Security Part II, reports associations among historical environmental events, societal trends, and activities undertaken by families, communities, and governmental agencies striving to gain food security and welln…
Seeking Food Security: Environmental Factors Influencing Home Food Preservation and Wellness, Part I: 1910–1959
Concerns about food scarcity, quality, and safety and the ability to maintain family wellness have arisen episodically throughout the last century. Major developments that triggered these concerns occurred in the natural environment, the economy, and technology along with changes in family roles and resources. In this two‐part study, relationships among environmental crises and trends and strategies undertaken by households and federal agencies s…
The Family and Consumer Sciences Body of Knowledge and the Cultural Kaleidoscope: Research Opportunities and Challenges
As a profession established during the Progressive Era when industrialization, immigration, urbanization, and other social forces were prevalent, family and consumer sciences is once again faced with similar social, economic, and technological societal conditions. This article addresses how family and consumer sciences, through its body of knowledge, is positioned to address the social changes of the 21st century. In particular, the article exami…
From Treatise to Textbook: A History of Writing About Household Management
The origins of contemporary writing about household management in the United States have been traced back to Catharine Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy. The expansion of academic programs in home economics, the rise of research using the scientific method, and the changing economic and social conditions during the early 20th century contributed to the transition from treatises offering household advice based on Christian precepts and cust…
Buying Time and Saving Time: Strategies for Managing Household Production
Time-buying strategies used more often by employed-wife families than nonemployed-wife families were purchase of child care, meals away from home, and disposable diapers. Time-saving strategies used by employed wives were preparing fewer meals at home, reduced time in household production, and reduced time in leisure. Wife's employment made no difference in time spent in household production by other family members
The Time Crunch: Wife's Employment and Family Work
The relationship between patterns of time spent in household work and employment hours of the wife was examined in a sample of 206 families. Employment of the wife outside the home in paid work was significantly related to her time in housework, but had little effect on her husband's or children's time contributions to household tasks. A lessening of the time crunch for full-time employed wives and equalization of length of work days for husbands…
Impact of Wife's Employment upon Husband's Housework
The allocation of time is recognized as a major economic consideration for families. Analysis of longitudinal data on time use offers a fruitful method for examining change and/or stability in roles of husbands and wives. In this panel study of 1156 intact families, time allocation to housework and employment by husbands and wives follows a traditional pattern, with wives spending most time in housework and husbands spending most time in employme…
Buying Time and Saving Time: Strategies for Managing Household Production
Time-buying strategies used more often by employed-wife families than nonemployed-wife families were purchase of child care, meals away from home, and disposable diapers. Time-saving strategies used by employed wives were preparing fewer meals at home, reduced time in household production, and reduced time in leisure. Wife's employment made no difference in time spent in household production by other family members
The Family and Consumer Sciences Body of Knowledge and the Cultural Kaleidoscope: Research Opportunities and Challenges
As a profession established during the Progressive Era when industrialization, immigration, urbanization, and other social forces were prevalent, family and consumer sciences is once again faced with similar social, economic, and technological societal conditions. This article addresses how family and consumer sciences, through its body of knowledge, is positioned to address the social changes of the 21st century. In particular, the article exami…
Impact of Wife's Employment upon Husband's Housework
The allocation of time is recognized as a major economic consideration for families. Analysis of longitudinal data on time use offers a fruitful method for examining change and/or stability in roles of husbands and wives. In this panel study of 1156 intact families, time allocation to housework and employment by husbands and wives follows a traditional pattern, with wives spending most time in housework and husbands spending most time in employme…
The Time Crunch: Wife's Employment and Family Work
The relationship between patterns of time spent in household work and employment hours of the wife was examined in a sample of 206 families. Employment of the wife outside the home in paid work was significantly related to her time in housework, but had little effect on her husband's or children's time contributions to household tasks. A lessening of the time crunch for full-time employed wives and equalization of length of work days for husbands…
Seeking Food Security: Environmental Factors Influencing Home Food Preservation and Wellness, Part I: 1910–1959
Concerns about food scarcity, quality, and safety and the ability to maintain family wellness have arisen episodically throughout the last century. Major developments that triggered these concerns occurred in the natural environment, the economy, and technology along with changes in family roles and resources. In this two‐part study, relationships among environmental crises and trends and strategies undertaken by households and federal agencies s…
Seeking Food Security: Environmental Factors Influencing Home Food Preservation and Wellness, Part II: 1960-2010
Important events in the natural environment and society along with dramatic changes in family structures and available resources have occurred from 1910 to 2010, impacting household food security and wellness. This article, Seeking Food Security Part II, reports associations among historical environmental events, societal trends, and activities undertaken by families, communities, and governmental agencies striving to gain food security and welln…
Home Management Houses: Part I History and a Case Study of Kansas State University
For much of the 20th century, living in a home management house for the purpose of applying principles and practices of household resource management was a core feature of the home economics curriculum. Home management houses were an integral part of the infrastructure on campuses of colleges and universities offering home economics majors. The purpose of this study was to explore the history of the home management house as an educational method …
The Opening Wedge: Mary E. Creswell, Home Economics, and the University of Georgia
A protracted struggle for women to gain admission to the University of Georgia took place in the context of major shifts in social, economic, and political conditions within the state from the 1890s to the early 1900s. This article reports the early development of home economics in Georgia and Mary E. Creswell's pivotal role. As a beneficiary of change as well as an agent of change, Creswell provided leadership for programs aimed at increasing wo…
Helen Woodard Atwater: A Leader of Leaders
This article chronicles the life of Helen W. Atwater, a leader of leaders, and emissary for journalistic expertise, home economics, and women's role in civil society. Atwater's career as a writer and editor encompassed three decades in the early twentieth century during which she prepared reports for the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Home Economics, served as the first full‐time editor of the Journal of Home Economics…
From Treatise to Textbook: A History of Writing About Household Management
The origins of contemporary writing about household management in the United States have been traced back to Catharine Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy. The expansion of academic programs in home economics, the rise of research using the scientific method, and the changing economic and social conditions during the early 20th century contributed to the transition from treatises offering household advice based on Christian precepts and cust…
Impact of Wife's Employment upon Husband's Housework
The allocation of time is recognized as a major economic consideration for families. Analysis of longitudinal data on time use offers a fruitful method for examining change and/or stability in roles of husbands and wives. In this panel study of 1156 intact families, time allocation to housework and employment by husbands and wives follows a traditional pattern, with wives spending most time in housework and husbands spending most time in employme…
Buying Time and Saving Time: Strategies for Managing Household Production
Time-buying strategies used more often by employed-wife families than nonemployed-wife families were purchase of child care, meals away from home, and disposable diapers. Time-saving strategies used by employed wives were preparing fewer meals at home, reduced time in household production, and reduced time in leisure. Wife's employment made no difference in time spent in household production by other family members
The Time Crunch: Wife's Employment and Family Work
The relationship between patterns of time spent in household work and employment hours of the wife was examined in a sample of 206 families. Employment of the wife outside the home in paid work was significantly related to her time in housework, but had little effect on her husband's or children's time contributions to household tasks. A lessening of the time crunch for full-time employed wives and equalization of length of work days for husbands…
From Treatise to Textbook: A History of Writing About Household Management
The origins of contemporary writing about household management in the United States have been traced back to Catharine Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy. The expansion of academic programs in home economics, the rise of research using the scientific method, and the changing economic and social conditions during the early 20th century contributed to the transition from treatises offering household advice based on Christian precepts and cust…
The Family and Consumer Sciences Body of Knowledge and the Cultural Kaleidoscope: Research Opportunities and Challenges
As a profession established during the Progressive Era when industrialization, immigration, urbanization, and other social forces were prevalent, family and consumer sciences is once again faced with similar social, economic, and technological societal conditions. This article addresses how family and consumer sciences, through its body of knowledge, is positioned to address the social changes of the 21st century. In particular, the article exami…
Seeking Food Security: Environmental Factors Influencing Home Food Preservation and Wellness, Part I: 1910–1959
Concerns about food scarcity, quality, and safety and the ability to maintain family wellness have arisen episodically throughout the last century. Major developments that triggered these concerns occurred in the natural environment, the economy, and technology along with changes in family roles and resources. In this two‐part study, relationships among environmental crises and trends and strategies undertaken by households and federal agencies s…
Seeking Food Security: Environmental Factors Influencing Home Food Preservation and Wellness, Part II: 1960-2010
Important events in the natural environment and society along with dramatic changes in family structures and available resources have occurred from 1910 to 2010, impacting household food security and wellness. This article, Seeking Food Security Part II, reports associations among historical environmental events, societal trends, and activities undertaken by families, communities, and governmental agencies striving to gain food security and welln…
Helen Woodard Atwater: A Leader of Leaders
This article chronicles the life of Helen W. Atwater, a leader of leaders, and emissary for journalistic expertise, home economics, and women's role in civil society. Atwater's career as a writer and editor encompassed three decades in the early twentieth century during which she prepared reports for the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Home Economics, served as the first full‐time editor of the Journal of Home Economics…
The Opening Wedge: Mary E. Creswell, Home Economics, and the University of Georgia
A protracted struggle for women to gain admission to the University of Georgia took place in the context of major shifts in social, economic, and political conditions within the state from the 1890s to the early 1900s. This article reports the early development of home economics in Georgia and Mary E. Creswell's pivotal role. As a beneficiary of change as well as an agent of change, Creswell provided leadership for programs aimed at increasing wo…
Home Management Houses: Part I History and a Case Study of Kansas State University
For much of the 20th century, living in a home management house for the purpose of applying principles and practices of household resource management was a core feature of the home economics curriculum. Home management houses were an integral part of the infrastructure on campuses of colleges and universities offering home economics majors. The purpose of this study was to explore the history of the home management house as an educational method …
Exploring Home Management Houses: Part II Two Case Studies: The University of Georgia and Texas Tech University
Home management courses, and the houses where those course principles and practices were applied, played an historical role in the home economics curriculum in the United States from the 1920s to the 1980s. The residence course was taught in a variety of settings. However, the course was taught most often in houses located on campus. Using multiple research methods, this study explored home management courses and residences at the University of G…
Perceived Adequacy of Resources: Reprise on a Useful Research Tool
Researchers, educators, counselors, and policy‐makers use information gathered from specific populations and the public at large to identify and understand their perceptions of well‐being. Perceived Adequacy of Resources (PAR), a comprehensive exploration of individual’s assessment of their resources in seven domains of living, was developed in the 1980s and has been validated as a reliable measure. In response to requests for the inventory, a su…
Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Architecture, Design, and Social History (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Family and consumer science (3 works)